Past Events
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Nov 20Wisconsin DiscussesOnline (via Zoom) Register Today
Recognize National Rural Health Day by joining our November Wisconsin Discusses session. Our conversation, led by the Rural Wisconsin Health Cooperative’s (RWHC) Tim Size and Marie Barry, will provide an overview of rural health in Wisconsin and explore the role local and tribal health departments can play in helping communities thrive. Attendees are encouraged to bring their questions about …
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Nov 18PHIG Spotlight: Florence County Health DepartmentOnline (via Zoom) Register Today
Florence County Health Department is a small, rural county in northern Wisconsin that was reaccredited through the Public Health Accreditation Board (PHAB) in 2023. Due to limited financial resources, the county does not have an epidemiologist or data expert but is tasked with creating a community health assessment and improvement plan (CHA/CHIP) that meets both …
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Oct 14PHIG Spotlight: Public Health Madison & Dane County
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Carleigh Olson, Strategic Projects Coordinator at Public Health Madison and Dane County (PHMDC), will join us to talk about a recent Performance Management process where she facilitated all Public Health programs in her department to select goals and performance measures for 2025. This session will include insights about what made the process unique and next …
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Oct 7UWPHI Immersions: Systems Thinking in Public HealthOnline (via Zoom) Register Today
Join the October Immersion on systems thinking, an approach to problem-solving that focuses on examining the interconnectedness of a system’s components. This is a valuable approach in public health where we are often addressing complex problems that require deep understanding of structures, relationships, and root causes in order to improve health outcomes. We will be …
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Sep 25Wisconsin Discusses: Narrative Perspectives
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Join us for a conversation with partners from three very different subfields of public health who are engaging in powerful narrative work — although they might not explicitly call it that! NOTE: To allow more time for sharing and discussion, this will be a 90-minute session. This is the second edition of PHIG’s summer series …
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Aug 12UWPHI Immersion: Utilizing Deliberative Inquiry to Strengthen Your CHA/CHIP
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Deliberative Inquiry is a strategy for building consensus through dialogue that clarifies shared values and identifies community supported solutions to complex issues. This session introduces Deliberative Inquiry and UW Extension’s role in supporting community engagement within the Community Health Assessment and Improvement Plan (CHA/CHIP) process. Participants will hear highlights from Clark and Wood County Health …
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Aug 5PHIG Spotlight: Portage County and Wood County Collaboration
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With local and tribal public health departments regularly asked to do more work with limited resources, there is value in highlighting examples of successful cross-county collaboration — particularly initiatives that demonstrate how shared processes or pooled resources can benefit communities across county borders. The August Spotlight will highlight initiatives where two county health departments worked …
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Jul 10Wisconsin Discusses: Narratives for Health
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Join us for the July Wisconsin Discusses where we’ll highlight the broad goals of UWPHI’s Narrative for Health Program. We’ll hear from two individuals who have completed a Narratives for Health cohort and have begun implementing the transformative narrative into their work: Both of our guests will provide key insights into how they operationalize and …
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Jul 8PHIG Spotlight
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Niki Lucht, an epidemiologist at the Wood County Health Department, will share how the department implements transformative narratives as part of their broader strategy for change, specifically through their Community Health Assessment and Community Health Improvement Plan (CHA/CHIP). Learn how narrative change can shift mindsets, challenge harmful assumptions, and open the door to structural change …
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Jun 25UWPHI Immersions: Using a New Model to Explore Health and Equity in Your Community
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We know that many conditions — like income, safe housing and education — shape how long and how well people live. For over a decade, County Health Rankings & Roadmaps (CHRR) has measured these conditions through data and our model of health. But how are these conditions created? And who creates them? The University of Wisconsin …